In Marker's films, light caught in emulsion floats like oil on water, burns off in the darkness of the mind stopped dead between frames, so having time to think, before being washed over by more pictures.
There's been a great deal of talk, recently, about a CD-ROM on World War 2. Look up Okinawa. It says, "There were about 100,000 casualties, including numerous civilians...” which is doubly wrong.
Back in 1966, Chris Marker made a film called Si j’avais quatre dromadaires in which an amateur photographer (Marker incognito) and his two friends muse in voice-over at the portfolio of stills the globetrotting lens man has brought back...
In 1997 Chris Marker held an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, ImmemoryOne and Godard showed Voyage(s) en utopies: Jean-Luc Godard, 1946-2006, in the same place.